NYT Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Monday, August 5 (Contest #421)
Why not start the week with a game of the NYT’s Connections word game? It’s usually hard, always fun, and there are hints below if you need them.
What do you do when you’re done? Well, play some word games of course. I also have daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help with those too.
SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about today’s NYT Connections. So don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #421) – Today’s Words
The words of today’s NYT Connections are…
- BIRTHDAY
- SWEETS
- DO YOU UNDERSTAND
- THANK YOU
- CONTACT
- WITNESS
- HACK IT
- TO SEE
- SHADOW
- MAKE IT
- BETTER
- TO UNDERSTAND
- TO MANAGE
- CAPITAL
- GETTING AROUND
- CONGRATULATIONS
NYT Connections Today (Contest #421) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some clues to the current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: It’ll be fine
- Vegetable: Best…
- Blue: Follow me?
- Purple: ‘optical organ’ empty
Do you need more pointers?
We’re really getting into spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #421) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for the current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SURVIVAL
- GREEN: TYPES OF GREETING CARDS
- BLUE: ARE WE CLEAR?
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “EYE”
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Contest #421) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, #421, are…
- YELLOW: SURVIVAL OVERCOME, HACK, DO, MANAGE
- GREEN: TYPES OF GREETING CARDS BIRTHDAY, CONGRATULATIONS, GET BETTER, THANK YOU
- BLUE: ARE WE CLEAR? CAPISCE, GET IT, SEE, UNDERSTAND
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “EYE” CANDY, CONTACT, SHADOW, WITNESS
- My score: Simple
- My score: Perfect
Today’s Connections is surprisingly easy. Three of the groups are really clear and only the purple ‘words after “eye”‘ is really challenging. But chances are you don’t have to worry about that anyway.
The pivotal group is probably blue, because it’s the second hardest. However, the presence of CAPISCE in that group makes it easier, because there aren’t really many ways to use that word. Once you’ve spotted UNDERSTAND, it’ll be obvious what that group was, which means you’re left with purple by default to solve without any brain power.
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Answers from yesterday on NYT Connections (Sunday, August 4, Contest #420)
- YELLOW: CHILD BUDDY, CHAMPION, SPORT, TIGER
- GREEN: BE IN FAVOR OF IT FAVORED, DOWN, PLAYFUL, WILLING
- BLUE: START WITH DOUBLE LETTERS AARDVARK, creepy, llama, slime
- PURPLE: NICKNAMES FOR THE SEA, WITH “THE” BLUE, SALT, DEEP, DRINK
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games from the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a bit harder, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically have to solve the last question, because you can answer it by elimination. Plus, you can make a maximum of four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.
It is a bit more complicated than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can obscure the answers.
It is free to play via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
